Sitting on public transport this morning earwig-ing on a couple of (non-bigoted for once) fans of the above zombie club.
Predictably their take on the JJ issue was that we should bend over and give him to them and that "why is THE's £350k not as good as some championship club in England offering the same amount?". I felt like saying cos the championship club will be able to pay us real money if we were to accept it ya muppets.
Less predictably they then went on to bemoan the conduct of their own support at some televised friendly tournament that THE were involved in in Florida. Apparently the citizens of Florida were up to their knees in Fenian blood, the whole game the commentators were drowned out by bigoted party songs, and when fans were interviewed before the game they burst into the Billy Boys to the bemused reporter. Sounds like it might be worth a wee "investigate" given that our wonderful Scottish media will want it brushed under the carpet. Anybody got the time to go hunting?

With all the talk about Steven Naismith, as well as the feel good factor from the last couple of months I do wonder if we are losing sight of what the squad needs to give us the best chance of finishing as high as we can in the league.
Naismith nowadays would be a wide midfielder or a number 10 type that chips in with some goals. We might need that but especially if he is not fit, I am not sure it is the top priority.
I think we need cover/ competition at both full backs and cover in the centre of the defence (assuming Greer is not fit and/or leaves).
I also think we need at least one more decent striker. When Boyd and Brophy are fit we should be ok. Erwin is not a replacement for either and looks off the pace. Kiltie is a classic number 10 and if he played it may or may not suit the striker(s) we have.

At the moment we have a particularly bad cabal of really weasely, snidey, arrogant referees who do the media-friendly, SFA/SPFL/ Lawell/ King-pleasing thing every time they get the chance. The list is too long to mention.
There are only really two or three of the current crop that strike me as genuinely incompetent though, those being Andrew son of Dallas/ spawn of satan, Nick "Louis" Walsh and good old Willie Collum. It's no surprise that the first two of those three are the SFA's great rising stars.
But remember when some of the long-standing refs were just completely, hopelessly incompetent?
Step forward Mr Andrew Waddell:

Watched his performance tonight.
Stood and looked straight at Carlos Penis of SevCo commit two clear cut red card offences in first half when it was still 1-0 to Accies. Outcome One yellow.
Let the Buns have an offside goal to put themselves out of sight then a sneaky wee pen to wrap it up.
Once the game was done gave the Accies some scraps so they had nothing to complain about.
This is not refereeing so much as game management for the powers that be in our pathetic, corrupt, sham of a "game".

I have never been a fan of this lad, but am I the only person in the world that finds his current hit "Galway Girl" one of the most casually sexist pieces of pish that has hit our airwaves for a while?
Everybody is quick to slap down the hip hop fraternity for their sexist stereotyping but ffs "pretty" "little" Galway Girl that fallls over herself to shag a ginger minger from Suffolk cos he's English????
Holy McMoly...

Have always thought this character was a nasty piece of work.
The constant ridiculous diving condoned by his manager, and his performance in the game of shame last season against Chelski when he could easily have been sent off on 5 separate occasions but wasn't (presumably because of his England rising star status with referees) spring to mind.
However last night's atrocity takes the biscuit. There is no possible intention in that "tackle" other than to cause maximum injury to the opponent which would be knee ligament injury and a year out.
What is the chance that UEFA will make the punishment fit the crime and give this piece of s**t a one year's ban?
No chance